Adolph wahra



(,No Model.)

A; WAHRA. PLY NET.

No. 439,911. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH WAHRA, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO VICTOR D. FISCHBECK, OF SAME PLACE.

FLY-NET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,911, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed December 16, 1889- Serial No. 333,910. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLPH WAHRA, of Milwaukee,in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Nets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to fly-nets; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction,

to be hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a portion of a leather fly-net and illustrates one form of my invention; Figs. 2 and 3, sections respectively taken on lines 2 2 and3 3 of the preceding figure; Fig. 4, a view similar to Fig. 1, and illustrates another form of my invention Fig. 5, an elevation of what is shown by the preceding figure; Fig. 6, a view illustrating still another form of my invention, and Fig.7 a section on line 7 7 of the preceding figure. Fig.8 is a view illustrating another form of my invention.

2 5 Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents a portion of a longitudinal leather bar that constitutes part of a fly-net, said bar being provided with the usual perforations b, for the passage of transverse leather o lash-sections B B, the latter being shown as preferably knotted to the bar and spliced or otherwise joined together at their meeting ends, these ends being concealed within said bar. This concealment of an end of each 5 lash-section is one of the objects of my invention, because it enables me to utilize short strips made from what would be otherwise waste-leather, and thus I cheapen the manufacture of the nets without detracting from the appearance or utility of the finished articles, each lash in the latter being apparently continuous from end to end.

In that form of my invention illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the meeting ends of the 5 leather lash-sections are spliced together and the fibers of the leather bar A separated between each two of the perforationsb by means of an awl or other suitable implement to form longitudinal channels 0 Within said bar, into which the splices are drawn, and thus concealed from view.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I show a leather bar similar to the one described in connection with the preceding figures, but the meeting ends of the leather lash-sections are not spliced, '1 but simply inserted in the channels 0 and united by two-prong tacks driven in from without. said bar. It may be found preferable to fasten the concealed end of each lashsection by a single tack; or it may be found sufficient to simply insert the same within said bar, and thus omit any form of tack or splice, as shown in Fig. 8.

In Figs. 6 and 7 I show the leather bar A as having one edge thereof slitted throughout its length to facilitate the threading of the leather lash-sections B through the perforations 1), the meeting ends of each two of the sections being shown as united by splicing, as previously explained in connection with the first form of my invention, although tacks may be employed, as explained, with refererence to the second form of said invention; or I may find it practicable to do away with splices or tacks. 7 5

A leather fly-net as ordinarily constructed contains five longitudinal bars-a center or back bar and four side barsthe bar A, above described, being designed as the back bar of such a net, although one or more of the side bars may be of similar construction in case very short sections are employed to form the transverse lashes; but it is not usual to employ more than two sections for what appears in the finished net as one unbroken lash, and consequently, as amatter of preference, an end of each of these two sections is concealed within said back bar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a fly-net, a channeled longitudinal leather bar, transverse leather lash-sections secured at intervals to thebar, and an end of each lashsection concealed within the channeled portion of said bar adjacent to the point at which said lash-section and bar are united, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

ADOLPH WAHRA Witnesses:

N. E. OLIPHANT, WILLIAM KLUG.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 439,911, granted November 4, 1890, for an improvement in Fly-Nets, was erroneously issued to the inventor, Adolph Wahra, and Victor D. Fischbeck as joint owners of said invention; Whereas the patent should have been granted to said Adolph Wahra as owner of the entire interest as shown by the assignments of record in the Patent Office; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same ma conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office. I

Signed, oountersigned, and sealed this 18th day of November, A. D. 1890.

CYRUS BUSSEY, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEAL] Conntersig'ned:

C. E. MITCHELL,

Commissioner of Patents. 

